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Royal Stables of Meknes in Meknes, Morocco

June 10, 2020

During the reign of Sultan Moulay Ismail, between 1645 and 1727, the medieval city of Meknes served as Morocco‘s capital. While his royal palace was largely destroyed by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the adjacent Royal Stables have survived to this day, beautifully preserved, though seven times their original size. It’s a magnificent stabling complex, and back in its day it could accommodate up to 12,000 royal horses. Rumor has it that the sultan so loved horses that he treated...

John Muir’s Giant Sequoia in Martinez, California

June 10, 2020

A single, 80-foot-tall giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) stands alone near the stunning, Victorian-period Italianate mansion in Martinez, California, where John Muir spent the last 24 years of his life. The tree is almost 140-years-old—a youngster compared to many of its species, which can live for thousands of years and reach an average height of 164 to 279 feet. However this sequoia is significant because it is a living connection to America’s most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, known as...

Tips on Managing Hotel Staff During Times...

June 10, 2020

Strong leadership has always been the base for building team engagement, but it plays an even bigger role during a crisis. Straightforward? Yes, but especially when navigating through uncertain times, it can be challenging to keep your team engaged and dedicated to a common goal. In this article, three experts share their top tips on team engagement with you. How to Manage Hotel Staff During Times of Crisis and Unemployment? Jones Liew, an experienced corporate trainer and facilitator from...

Bean Pie

June 9, 2020

At first glance, you might think it’s a pumpkin or a sweet potato pie. Yet bean pies, a unique specialty in some Black American Muslim communities, are made with creamy navy beans, spices, and a whole-wheat crust. The sweet pies, sold for fundraising and at bakeries across the United States, can be traced to the writings of the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who in two books laid out guidelines for a healthful diet, excluding pork and sweet...

Picarones

June 9, 2020

During Peru’s near-300-year-period under Spanish rule, Spaniards introduced deep-fried dough balls called buñuelos to the region. Unfortunately, colonizers also brought the African slave trade. It was enslaved African cooks who refitted the original buñuelos recipe to make use of Peruvian sweet potato and squash. They kneaded flour and salt with mashed produce and fried spoonfuls of the orange dough in hot lard. To finish off the warm, chewy treat, they doused its crisp exterior in sweet syrup. Peru regained...

6 Comfort Foods Born of Historic Times...

June 9, 2020

The first impoverished German immigrant to fold oats into leftover ground meat didn’t do so out of culinary whimsy; nor did they expect their descendants to attend Cincinnati’s Goetta Festival centuries later. Enslaved West Africans in colonial Peru who reconfigured their captors’ leftovers couldn’t have known their hardscrabble bread pudding would be forever embedded in Peruvian cuisine. Most shockingly, food-stretched American mothers defied every presumptive rule of baking and respectability by making cakes from tomato soup during World War...

Museo Omero (Tactile Museum) in Ancona, Italy

June 9, 2020

Museo Omero is a tactile museum in Ancona, Italy, and one of the few places in the world where the knowledge of art is transmitted not through sight but through touch. The museum aims to help the visually impaired to experience art but its unique multi-sensory exhibition is accessible to everyone. Established in 1993, the innovative museum hosts various copies and casts of real archeological finds and pieces of art like the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Venus de...

Beatriz de la Fuente Teotihuacán Murals Museum...

June 9, 2020

Elaborate murals once tattooed the walls of thousands of residential complexes across ancient Teotihuacán. Today, many of them live in an unassuming museum within the archaeological site: The Beatriz de la Fuente Teotihuacán Murals Museum. Named after Mexican art historian Beatriz Ramírez de la Fuente, the museum houses over fifty millennia-old murals along with several artifacts recovered from on-site temples and palaces. The museum consists of nine main rooms, each with its own thematic focus, spanning space and time....

How an Indian Prince Built a Queer...

June 9, 2020

One of the world’s most unusual LGBTQ support centers sits on 15 acres of farmland in Gujarat, India, by the side of the Narmada River. Rustic farmhouses are clustered near millet fields, mango trees, and a white bull with spectacularly large horns. Riya Patel, who was born in the U.S. and now works as a manager and farmer at the center, advises against taking a dip in the river: A swimmer once became crocodile lunch here, Patel says. “We...

Cast-Iron Dogs of Tivoli Castle in Slovenia

June 9, 2020

When you take a stroll through Tivoli, the largest park in Ljubljana, you may come across four cast-iron dogs sitting gracefully at the foot of Rožnik Hill. These statues stand guard on a staircase that leads to a beautiful mansion, might look ordinary to any passerby. But don’t be fooled—they are all missing a vital muscular organ, and are somewhat of an enigma. These four iron-cast hounds were made around 1864, by the sculptor Anton Dominik Fernkorn. The Austrian...

The Rufus Stone in Minstead, England

June 9, 2020

William Rufus loved hunting. Really loved hunting. He would have been more than happy to have spent all day, every day tearing after game through the forests of England. This was just as well really, as much of England had been turned into a giant playground for the Norman nobility that had assumed control of the country after the 1066 invasion. One of the first things that Rufus’s father, William I, also known as William the Conqueror, did upon...

How to Dig Into the History of...

June 9, 2020

During the past few months of lockdown, I’ve been taking daily walks around my Brooklyn neighborhood. As I’ve strolled the same streets week after week, I’ve started paying attention to buildings in a way I never had before. My roommate and I turned this into a sort of historical scavenger hunt. Each of us takes photos or writes down addresses during our separate constitutionals, and back at home we look up the history of the buildings. We’ve learned that...

Agongointo-Zoungoudo Archaeological Park in Bohicon, Benin

June 9, 2020

Just outside of Abomey, a subterranean town of over fifty dwellings lies thirty feet beneath the ground. Known as the Agongointo-Zoungoudo Underground Town, the series of rooms and passageways was rediscovered in 1998 during a construction project in Bohicon, when an unsuspecting bulldozer toppled into one of the caverns. The sprawling subterranean town is believed to date back to the late-16th or early-17th century during the reign of King Dakodonou, the second king of Dahomey. Agongointo-Zoungoudo consists of over...

Osterley Bookshop in Osterley, England

June 9, 2020

Built above the abandoned Underground station Osterley Park, Osterley Bookshop was opened in 1967, and has been a wondrous place for bookworms and lovers of the obscure ever since. It features a wide range of second-hand books, from classics to children’s, almost all for under £10, stacked on top of each other in seeming chaos that only the owners seem to understand. What makes this bookstore truly special—apart from the fact that the station below with quite a history of...

Sarcophagi of the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in...

June 9, 2020

During the sixth century, the city of Ravenna was one of the most important cities of the Byzantine Empire. Today, many of the great buildings erected during that golden age are still standing. Just outside Ravenna, the hamlet of Classe was once the home port of the Roman fleet in the Adriatic Sea. The Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe was built there, near the old seashore, which has migrated more than five miles away in the last 1,500 years....

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